Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone, I just posted a video at (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPQ0VFUYXPk)that shows the best way I have found to make gold using laurels. It would be awesome if you could stop by and check it out and let me know what you think. Thank you for your time! (:

I think it could have been summed up in three lines of text instead of in a three minute video.

No offense, but this is common sense if you need gold. I ran out of gold, but had laurels, so I ran to the nearest laurel vendor and bought all the heavy crafting bags I could because I knew they had tier 6 mats and got around 20 gold. Again, no offense, but there wasn’t really a reason to make a video about it when you could just as easily tell people on the forums, guild chat, or just shout it out in LA.

While I appreciate the video and do not blame anyone but myself for this, but when you said “contains six tier crafting materials” I assumed that meant ‘contains six T6 crafting materials’ and wondered why I only got three.

Might want to make an annotation on the video :p

Laurels, lol. Those are only good for purchasing dyes. Crafting bags are obsolete.

Best strategy is said to be to buy heavy crafting bags, not dyes, in current market.

Yesterday I bought 50 heavy crafting bags (for T6 mats to get my character up to 500 crafting).

Invested in dyes, I would have got 100 unidentified dyes (currently 20s21c at the TP hence 20g 21s the lot if sold unopened).

From the bags I got 20 elaborate totems (22s each), 19 armored scales (26s20c each), 19 venom sacs (25s3c), 18 vicious fangs (27s29c), 16 vicious claws (22s46c), 21 crystalline dust (13s94c), 22 powerful blood (30s15c) and 15 ancient bone (22s31c). Total retail 35g 54s 64c on the T/P (prices correct 22/09/2013 morning)

Clearly heavy bags a better buy atm – hardly surprising as each contains 3 items, and only one of these (dust) is currently worth less than an unidentified dye.

Whilst I wouldn’t recommend using laurels to get gold (at least not until you have enough ascended trinkets for all your alts) you’ll get a return of roughly 40s per laurel buying dyes and 70s per laurel buying heavy materials at current prices.

Whilst a die-hard unidentified-dye-opener-in-hope-of-Abyss might prefer to open 100 dyes in the hope of hitting the jackpot, it should be pointed out that even with 15% lost to taxes the proceeds from selling the contents of those 50 heavy bags could have been used to buy 149 unidentified dyes.

Using laurels for gold is a huge waste. Never do this.

I highly doubt that you have bought enough infusions to outfit all your alts in full ascended gear yet. Once ascended armor comes out that will give you 16 slots for infusions. That is a possible +65 to one stat, +20%MF, and +15 to a different stat.